Posts on Blowfish

Testing Svelte

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Image test

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:03:08 +0000

Xero CIS – correcting a submitted return (it is possible)

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:43:06 +0000

Quickly convert a Xero batch payment CSV to a format that works on Metro Bank

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:28:06 +0000

Clothing for your first marathon

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:32:47 +0000

Marathon training, turning planned run times into distances

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:36:32 +0000

Sharing a plane cut out for use in videos (a banner tow plane)

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:30:05 +0000

Alternatives to ordering from Amazon

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:28:30 +0000

Building a low power server

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:27:26 +0000

Santa-pi, a music player for a charity fundraising float

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:29:49 +0000

Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:36:36 +0000

Batch qr code generator in python

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:17:29 +0000

FreePBX adding additional network card

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:17:13 +0000

Google workspace – printing the collaborative inbox / printing google groups

Tue, 02 May 2023 09:10:29 +0000

Testing galleries – nothing here to see

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:25:54 +0000

Automatic Letterheads from a printer

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:53:55 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 9

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:21:21 +0000

Printers, running costs and life expectancy

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:15:06 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 8

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:29:08 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 7

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:53:41 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 6

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:43:13 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 5

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:15:18 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 4

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:01:07 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 3

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:46:49 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 2

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:22:05 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 1

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:00:29 +0000

Moving my small business [cloud email, file sharing, calendars] to a new provider

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:05:48 +0000

Moving Back to wordpress

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:32:28 +0000

Moving from wordpress to a static site generator

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:57:00 +0000

Magic letterhead tray – making preprinted stationary automatically on plain white paper

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:26:19 +0000

A Small Business Payroll Solution – how and why I moved our payroll process from an accounting firm to do it ourselves using ‘Software as a Service’

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:36:53 +0000

How many 1st class stamps to use on heavy letters?

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:13:21 +0000

Google Chrome ” Failed – Network Error.” on downloading files greater than 5MB (ish) – solution for me = Disable QUIC

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:32:56 +0000

Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:27:28 +0000

Blog traffic

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:23:53 +0000

Upgrading my server to PHP7 broke wordpress admin interface (cloudflare)

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:06:56 +0000

Spam from Scottish Power, their response: we’ll carry on spamming (just not to you).

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:20:13 +0000

Hot topic – our backup server (overheating!)

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:59:23 +0000

Why it’s time to move our business away from 2020 Fusion design software

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:40:11 +0000

Solicitors who spam? That would be Edwards Duthie Solicitors

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:26:46 +0000

Royalty free music and a time lapse video for work

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:01:24 +0000

Migrating from phpBB to Google Groups

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:09:31 +0000

Birthday Calculator – in case you don't want to wait a whole year to celebrate being alive

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:34:11 +0000

Virtual PDF Printer for our small office network – a step by step how to

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:23:52 +0000

Alternative title: How I got multiple cups-pdf printers on the same server. (I didn’t, but postprocessing let me work around the problem).

Preamble:

I have a small business. For years we’ve been creating PDFs from any computer on our network through a “virtual appliance’ called YAFPC (“Yet Another Free PDF Composer”).

The appliance originally ran on an old PC, then on a server that ran several other virtual machines. It had a neat web interface and would allow PDF printers to be created that would appear on the network for all of our users to use. It had one printer for plain A4 paper, one for A4 paper with a letterhead background, another one for an obscure use of mine, and so on. If you printed to it, it would email you the PDF (for any user, without any extra setup needed per user). It could also put the PDFs on one of our file servers or make them available from it’s built in file server.

If I remember correctly it cost £30 and ran since 2006 right through until today, November 2014. One of my best software investments!

However, Windows 8 came along and it no longer worked. Getting Windows 8 to print to it directly turned out to be impossible. The program was not going to be updated or replaced with a new version. I managed a short term work around having windows 8 print to a samba printer queue which converted and forwarded to the YAFPC virtual appliance. There were problems, page sizes not be exact and so on but it worked in a fashion.

Roll forward to today when I’ve just got a new network PDF virtual printer working. It wasn’t so easy to do (some 20 hours I guess) so here are my setup notes for others to follow. The final run through of these notes had it installed and working in about an hour.

These steps assume you know quite a bit about setting up linux servers. Please feel free to use the comments to point out errors or corrections, or add more complete instructions, and I’ll edit this post with the updates. Also please suggest alternatives methods that you needed to use to meet your needs.

Overview – We are going to create:

a new Ubuntu based linux server as a virtual machine
Install CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System
Install CUPS-PDF, and extension that allows files to be created from the print queue
Create a postprocessing script that will run every time CUPS-PDF is used that will customise our PDF’s and send them where we want them (to our users).

Sounds simple, right 🙂

sunspot solr slow in production (fixed by using IP address instead of domain name)

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:25:02 +0000

BT Wifi hotspots intercept and redirect google SSL searches

Mon, 05 May 2014 07:28:23 +0000

How to change a folder icon to a picture in Mac OS X

Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:54:49 +0000

VMware consolidated backup missing a catalogue file – fixed!

Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:23:31 +0000

A quick note on my first steps using stripe.com

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:44:40 +0000

A new form of Comment spam? – url shorteners and redirection?

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:26:22 +0000

BitDefender v Nod32

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:40:10 +0000

Parallels virtual disk much larger on mac than windows is actually using

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:55:53 +0000

Network PDF printing from Windows 8

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:57:35 +0000

After Win 8.1 update display has shrunk

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:51:32 +0000

Caught in my spam trap – randrnews.co.uk

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:06:00 +0000

Mac OS X Screenshot save to folder (instead of desktop)

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:13:36 +0000

Rails Sunspot/Solr returning result for single character searches

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:47:38 +0000

Backup! (Bye bye TimeMachine, hello Carbon Copy Cloner)

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:50:51 +0000

IBM need help with statistics

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:27:21 +0000

Gandi said thanks :-)

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:51 +0000

Extracting images from PDF (free, using command line)

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:01:34 +0000

Building an automatic infrared remote control for the shop

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:27:43 +0000

A quick review of WordPress comment and trackback spam

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:46:44 +0000

How to get noticed on LinkedIn (before LinkedIn existed)

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:15:14 +0000

Email from a new business that want's to supply my business

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:04:35 +0000

Caught in my spam trap – cloud-mailer.co.uk / brainycat.co.uk

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:18:56 +0000

Caught in my spam trap – paramountbathrooms.com / .co.uk

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:08:18 +0000

Caught in my spam trap – buildingmergers.co.uk

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:49:15 +0000

BT Openzone, Mac OS X connection problems

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:13:13 +0000

Grey text on a web page not visible when printing, how to fix it

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:46:54 +0000

Mac Timemachine backups are NOT complete

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:12:30 +0000

Calc (Openoffice / Libreoffice) If statements using 'between' or 'and'

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:02:37 +0000

Gitolite won't let server read repo

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:03:54 +0000

Installing a new hard disk in a Mac = not fun

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:54:39 +0000

WordPress redirects

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:26:44 +0000

Results are in, WordPress gets as much spam as movabletype

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:23:41 +0000

Technical notes on migrating from MovableType to WordPress

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:46:55 +0000

Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:22:19 +0000

Mail merge onto a PDF background

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:22:37 +0000

What happens when you break down in France (10 things I learnt)

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:08:39 +0000

When you go on a family holiday and your car gets a longer holiday than you do, you just know something didn’t go to plan.

This year our camping trip to france had a little ‘incident’ that left me pushing my French skills to the limit, learning new words concerning vehicle parts, pleading with insurance companies and waiting, lots and lots and lots of waiting.

Still, it was a great holiday! Read on to discover what happened when we broke down and what we learnt.

The joy of being a forum/newsgroup moderator

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:31:03 +0000

Peer to Peer downloading (Torrents) and network problems

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:43:35 +0000

Screen recording on a mac

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:39:42 +0000

Useful bash command for ruby programming (find a string within a file including sub directory files)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:30:24 +0000

SPF with google site verification

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:07:55 +0000

My SSL certificate was not working in Safari, but it did in Chrome and Firefox

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:54:31 +0000

Dear archant.co.uk, please stop spamming me

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:27 +0000

Outlook Web Access – missing options

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:44:27 +0000

Block web spammers by their IP address

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:05:21 +0000

Installing Sphinx on Mac OS X Lion

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:46:54 +0000

Windows to Mac continued

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:44:41 +0000

Useful Mac Shortcut Key (show desktop)

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:31:19 +0000

Notes from moving from Windows to Mac

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:01:45 +0000

My name (root) – most dangerous word in computing?

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:27:02 +0000

Good Sailing opportunity!

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:01:12 +0000

Amazing Stories of Polio – in a shop window

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:07:21 +0000

Backups for Google Calendar – a ruby application

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:27:34 +0000

CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:23:21 +0000

cciss-vol-status on Ubuntu didn't work, it was cciss_vol_status

Sat, 22 May 2010 13:13:34 +0000

Bad Bot go away!

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:19:38 +0000

blogging without using a keyboard (using windows built in speech recognition)

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:50:56 +0000

Memories of Nan Root

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:25:49 +0000

ruby on rails sql_type – A reminder for me

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:46:45 +0000

View a Multi page tiff file in windows

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:50:35 +0000

Kent Challenge Team (1994 promotional video – have I aged much?)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:54:22 +0000

Our Sydney holiday photo (after a little CGI…)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:33:00 +0000

5 and a bit years of blogging… just

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:54:46 +0000

Happy new year!

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:16:49 +0000

Brother Dave goes on a cycling holiday, we track his position live by GPS

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:03:18 +0000

Gmail default contact for a friend with more than one email address

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:07:07 +0000

Migrating Coldfusion to Open Bluedragon – form.FIELDNAMES

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:21:45 +0000

Googlemail down :(

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:05:05 +0000

Moving the blog to a new server

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:36:13 +0000

Are you in Medway on Friday?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:18 +0000

Rotary International Convention 2009 – Volunteering

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:05:44 +0000

Rotary Internation Convention 2009 – First timer notes

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:30:19 +0000

Goodbye Alicia

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:21:50 +0000

Moving to a new web server

Fri, 15 May 2009 16:39:17 +0000

Fresh Ubuntu install could not resolve domains names – and how I fixed it… maybe

Mon, 04 May 2009 14:17:27 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – the final day

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:22:23 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – The Duel

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:54:00 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – Visit to Fort Eben-Emael

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:37:37 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – Memories of day 1

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:31:23 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – More than just simulation

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:12:40 +0000

Rotary – Club Visit 9 to Lige Rive-Droite

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:29:08 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – Let Battle Commence

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:25:09 +0000

Marley and Me (Rooty Film Review)

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:29:36 +0000

Rotary – Club visit 8 to Chestfield

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:13:54 +0000

Learn french in 10 days…. assuming you don't need sleep?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:22 +0000

Perelandra (C.S. Lewis) and That Hideous Strength (C.S.Lewis)

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:01:19 +0000

15% VAT – How to work it out from 17.5% inc prices

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:40:07 +0000

Steve meets the president (yes, the nice one, from America)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:12:11 +0000

4 Years of blogging

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:35:08 +0000

Laughing Horse? It's a comedy club a friend was performing at…

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:54:08 +0000

VAT Rate changes – more work for the printing industry, more non revenue generating office work for me

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:09:26 +0000

Staying Alive (Alexander Fullerton)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:27:54 +0000

2001 A Space Odyssey (Arthur C Clarke)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:29 +0000

The Malacia Tapestry (Brian Aldiss)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:28:17 +0000

Rotary – Club visit 7 to Faversham

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:33:31 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Other things

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:16:49 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Rotarian Dr Geoff McKay presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:11:57 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Yellowmen of Kadongdong presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:07:36 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Orpheus Centre & Richard Stilgoe presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:04:05 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Graham Clarke presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:56:29 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Leonard Cheshire School 4 All presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:20:43 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference – Help for Heroes presentation

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:14:10 +0000

Rotary – 1120 District Conference

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:10:56 +0000

Pure highway in car DAB radio – time to play with my prize!

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:36 +0000

I'm still scared of speaking in public

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:45:32 +0000

Root Nicknames

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:17:08 +0000

Choosing a web browser – why can't I just put up with the default

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:25:41 +0000

Rotary – club visit 6 to Strood

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:59:45 +0000

Rotary – The next level of administration

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:41:04 +0000

Rotary – Club visit 5 to Chestfield

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:05:42 +0000

Red Mushroom, White Spots, found on my walk through the woods

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:55:49 +0000

A very lucky week for Steve!

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:55:58 +0000

GPS Logging from my PDA…needs a little work I think

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:40:20 +0000

The Island (Victoria Hislop)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:18:47 +0000

Life and times of a Keyboard

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:43:39 +0000

Earth is Room Enough (Issac Asimov)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:28:42 +0000

Space, Time and Nathaniel (Brian Aldiss)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:20:37 +0000

The Dark Light Years (Brian Aldiss)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:59:38 +0000

Sunday European Campaign – on target so far…

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:11:28 +0000

Rotary – Charter Night

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:50:24 +0000

Rotary – Club Visit 4 to Medway

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:43:12 +0000

Rotary and it's impact on our holiday (Part 2)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:18:18 +0000

Robert Robertson, talented young singer

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:34:55 +0000

Aces High 2 – Sunday European Campaign series begins!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:51:47 +0000

Rotary and it's impact on our family holiday (part 1)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:30:44 +0000

Rotary – First visit to another club

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:50:04 +0000

Rotary – Club Assembly

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:01:06 +0000

Rotary – Meeting Steve (at Pilgrims Hospice)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:32 +0000

Rotary – Meeting Craig (at Playing for Success Kent)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:31:47 +0000

Rotary – Planning for Club Assembly

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:17:20 +0000

Rotary – the Fun Day

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:59:42 +0000

Rotary – Meeting Lucy

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:31:04 +0000

Rotary – Getting to work

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:28:19 +0000

Rotary – Inauguration of a new club

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:11:14 +0000

Rotary – new member, new club

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:39:17 +0000

Rotary and Rootary

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:34:52 +0000

Halting State (Charles Stross)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:40:12 +0000

Out of the Silent Planet (C S Lewis)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:27:47 +0000

The Torch Bearers (Alexander Fullerton)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:20:22 +0000

Air Bridge (Hammond Innes)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:16:26 +0000

The Last Voyage (Hammond Innes)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:11:41 +0000

Sea Change (Robert Goddard)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:03:20 +0000

Eurocon – Extended Play

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:48:03 +0000

Eurocon – they tell me to shut my computer down

Sun, 18 May 2008 03:00:36 +0000

Eurocon – The Duel Championship

Sat, 17 May 2008 22:39:46 +0000

Eurocon – yesterday, or today, or i forget already

Sat, 17 May 2008 19:50:21 +0000

Eurocon – great times with more to come

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:47:47 +0000

Eurocon – international culture at it's best…

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:52:24 +0000

EuroCon – Dead Parrots?

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:58:07 +0000

Eurocon – The arrival

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:33:26 +0000

EuroCon I'm going I'm going!

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:38:49 +0000

Hero lost, hero found

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:42:14 +0000

Ruby woes: NameError and uninitialized constant

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:03:20 +0000

Spam filter that blocks the spam senders from RECEIVING email!

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:01:56 +0000

We featured on ITN National news

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:47:03 +0000

BBC iPlayer – it might reach your iPhone but not my PDA (…yet)

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:14:13 +0000

Coining phrases: "Messenger Lag"

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:09:12 +0000

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:08 +0000

Steve the podcast star?

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:55:18 +0000

Stumble upon – first stumbles

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:39:12 +0000

My best PDA/phone ever! (it's a HTC Touch Cruise)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:46:54 +0000

Spam Wars – The spammer lost in court, but will they pay?

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:12:14 +0000

The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (Harry Harrison) and The Stainless Steel Rat for President (Harry Harrison)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:30:54 +0000

Spammer comments on my blog pretending to be someone else!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:56:22 +0000

Mr Roots and his lovely old boots (or 14 years of heaven courtesy of Mr Brasher)

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:56:12 +0000

Space Mercenaries (A. Bertram Chandler)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:50:10 +0000

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:23:55 +0000

The Stainless Steel Rat (Harry Harrison)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:10:00 +0000

Automatic backups of my windows laptop

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:05:50 +0000

The Floating Madhouse (Alexander Fullerton)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:51:59 +0000

Spam wars – "determination of damages" hearing date set

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:21 +0000

BBC iPlayer – still not worth installing but worth watching online

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:55:31 +0000

Jennifer Morgue (Charles Stross)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:15:13 +0000

Tales from the White Hart (Arthur C Clarke)

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:14:16 +0000

Star Risk – The Scoundrel worlds (Chris Bunch), Star Risk – The Doublecross Program (Chris Bunch) and Star Risk – The Dog From Hell (Chris Bunch)

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:56:11 +0000

Star Risk (Chris Bunch)

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:08:56 +0000

"Smart" new training centre (I just couldn't resist the pun!) and other things

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:31:50 +0000

3 Years of blogging

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:14:48 +0000

Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know.

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:38:06 +0000

VoIP at home with a Linksys SPA3102, trails, tribulations but it's working now

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:30:38 +0000

One of our Australia photos was photo of the day on another web site

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:57 +0000

Welcome to the Christmas Party Season

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:32:30 +0000

Spam wars – court date set

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:27:15 +0000

Messiah (Boris Starling)

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:10:58 +0000

Coyote Frontier (Allen Steele) & Spindrift (Allen Steele)

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:01:11 +0000

The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:27:16 +0000

VoIP – testing sipgate

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:43:45 +0000

Movable Type 4 upgrade

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:03:05 +0000

EMC 82 Frame 1 results

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:10:36 +0000

With the far more effective ICEQBE parser not working at the moment, I ran the frame 1 results through my own code concoction so you can all see how well you did… or in my case, didn’t!

Big ~~to -ung– for being CM this month!~~

Follow the “read more” link to see all of the results.

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Cooking with Nanny

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:59:49 +0000

Spam wars – they didn't reply to the court…

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:25:08 +0000

Dark Space (Marianne de pierres)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:39:59 +0000

EMC 81 Logs

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:16:43 +0000
The last 3 sunday nights I have run an online gaming event (it’s called [warbirds][1]). If you played you can see how well you did by following the “read more” link, before then here are the top 10 player scores and the overall game statistics.

Player/th>

<th> EMCs Flown </th> <th> Died By Count </th> <th> kill count </th> <th> Assist Count </th> <th> damage total </th> <th> Launches </th> <th> vlist </th> <tr> <td> gun-as </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 14322.51 </td> <td> 8 </td> <td> Bristol-F.2b,Ju88A-4,109E1A0,40MMAAA,Bf-109G6 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> olepup </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 300 </td> <td> 5 </td> <td> Bristol-F.2b,HurricaneI,HurricaneIIC </td> </tr> <tr> <td> biffas </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> </td> <td> 9 </td> <td> SE5A,SpitM03F,SpitVb </td> </tr> <tr> <td> oldgit </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> </td> <td> 9351.13 </td> <td> 7 </td> <td> FW-190A4,109E1A0,Bristol-F.2b,Ju88A-4,He-111H3 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> -broz- </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1201.85 </td> <td> 10 </td> <td> 109E1A0,Bf110C-4,Bristol-F.2b </td> </tr> <tr> <td> deeday </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> </td> <td> 6 </td> <td> SpitM03F,SE5A,SpitVb </td> </tr> <tr> <td> lakman </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 5 </td> <td> 1 </td> <td> </td> <td> 12 </td> <td> SE5A,SpitVb,SpitM03F </td> </tr> <tr> <td> -dada- </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 4 </td> <td> 20252.25 </td> <td> 7 </td> <td> Ju87D,Bf110C-4,109E1A0,Bristol-F.2b,Ju88A-4 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> -egor- </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> 8 </td> <td> SpitVb,SE5A,SpitM03F </td> </tr> <tr> <td> chough </td> <td> 3 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> </td> <td> 4 </td> <td> </td> <td> 7 </td> <td> SpitM03F,SE5A,HurricaneIIC,HurricaneI,SpitVb </td> </tr></table> <h3> Players per Frame </h3> <table border="1"> <tr> <th> logid </th> <th> COUNT(DISTINCT player) </th> <tr> <td> EMC81-1.log </td> <td> 67 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> EMC81-2.log </td> <td> 71 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> EMC81-3.log </td> <td> 80 </td> </tr></table> <p>  </p> <h3> Count of players in EMC (over all frames analysed) </h3> <p>  </p> <table border="1"> <tr> <th> COUNT(DISTINCT player) </th> <tr> <td> 131 </td> </tr></table> <p>

Spam wars – I get ignored, but will they ignore the courts?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:42:44 +0000

Charlie's War (David Fiddimore)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:53:52 +0000

The Atrocity Archives (Charles Stross)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:34:36 +0000

Wow! two months without a post

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:32:11 +0000

Music I like: ViRGiNiE

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +0000

Sharpe's Prey (Bernard Cornwell)

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:39:25 +0000

Accelerando (Charles Stross)

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:11:47 +0000

Family trip to Dickens World.. hmmm

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:57:36 +0000

3001 (Arthur C. Clarke)

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:18:16 +0000

Spam Wars – Success!

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:26:55 +0000

Spam wars update

Tue, 22 May 2007 20:20:00 +0000

Sharpe's Battle (Bernard Cornwell)

Tue, 22 May 2007 20:12:14 +0000

Iron Sunrise (Charles Stross) and Singularity Sky (Charles Stross)

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:51:49 +0000

The Robots of Dawn (Isaac Asmiov)

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:37:29 +0000

False Impression (Jeffrey Archer)

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:20:14 +0000

Busy Me!

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:19:25 +0000

If that was a small earthquake…

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:53:07 +0000

Sword of Honour (Alexander Kent)

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:57:59 +0000

Sharpe's Honour (Bernard Cornwell)

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:19:50 +0000

Spam Wars – Success?

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:02:14 +0000

Glasshouse (Charles Stross)

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:22:13 +0000

Another Business Acronym

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:23:56 +0000

La classe de franais

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:05:53 +0000

NHS – I can only say good things about it….

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:08:28 +0000

Ever wonderered what the web server looks like?

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:16:29 +0000

Bereavement, and why I don't know what to say

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:05:33 +0000

The Peacemaker (C.S.Forrester)

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:43:24 +0000

I had an offer from a personal trainer to help my fitness training…

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:29:47 +0000

Sharpes Waterloo (Bernard Cornwell)

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:01:30 +0000

Sharpe's Regiment (Bernard Cornwell)

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:50:39 +0000

webERP Virtual Machine

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:13:52 +0000

Best foot forward

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:40:05 +0000

Sharpe's Devil (Bernard Cornwell)

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:03:42 +0000

How much email?

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:13:24 +0000

Running – not always good for your health

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:05:10 +0000

A Fine Night for Dying (Jack Higgins, a.k.a "Martin Fallon")

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:17:12 +0000

Root Objective Theory

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:03:13 +0000

I was Amelia Earhart (Jane Mendelsohn)

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:30:05 +0000

Tuesday's War (David Fiddimore)

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:39:30 +0000

J'apprends Franais!

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:22:02 +0000

Plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery. I guess I've been flattered then?

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:25:40 +0000

I've done something amazing

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:28:20 +0000

Jonathon Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:24:39 +0000

Life of Pi [Audio CD book] (Yann Martel)

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:10:22 +0000

Gold Mine (Wilbur Smith)

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:46:36 +0000

Islands in the Sky (Arthur C. Clarke)

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:37:48 +0000

Warbirds – Flight Sim that's free offline and lots of fun online

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:17:09 +0000

Is damn a swear word?

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:15:07 +0000

Vanity searching on Microsofts new live.com portal

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:06:40 +0000

Enter Now to win!

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:55:00 +0000

Avenger (Frederick Forsyth)

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:04:23 +0000

Driving Blind Stories (Ray Bradbury)

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:37:51 +0000

The Tristan Betrayal (Robert Ludlum)

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:32:12 +0000

Redcoat (Bernard Cornwell)

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:21:52 +0000

First ever competition for this site (and first video too)

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:25:29 +0000

I know what you’re all thinking, nothing has changed here lately. I’ve been working on things in the background but today marks the first of a whole bundle of waiting posts. This post includes my site’s first ever competition as well as it’s first ever video, created using the magic of my PDA’s video camera, Quicktime Pro, Macromedia Flash Video Encoder,Macromedia Dreamweaver, One not very willing actor (James) and a 3M Snap Band….

I wanted the video to be here, but it needed some special code which won’t work through the movabletype software I use here (It’s a security thing, that’s good!). Follow this link to see the video

I know what you’re going to say, “don’t give up your day job, and you won’t need to worry about being available for the Oscar ceremony…”. I know that too, but it’s been fun making it work and I’ve learnt some things too.

Competition Bit
I bet most of you jumped straight here wondering what you can win? Well, I’m giving away a 3M Snap Band as modelled by James in the video. They are reflective bands that will wrap around things, like James arm, a leg or a bike handle bar and so on. You can roll them flat and they will hold that position. As well as the video, you can find out all about them at www.3MBeSeen.co.uk. Now the weathers getting darker it makes sense for the children to have something reflective on them. As James is showing, they happen to be fun as well as safe. Better still, they only cost 3.00.

Wining will be easy. During the next week a new post will appear on this site called “Enter Now to win!”. If you are the first person to comment, you win.

Remember that comments don’t appear immediately, I have to moderate them all to stop all the spam from appearing. If you are having trouble posting a comment, send me an email instead. I’ll use the timestamp on the email to log your time of entry (that is, my server timestamp, so don’t try changing your computer clock!).
A couple of simple rules. 1) I decide who wins, my decision is final. 2) I get to change the rules whenever I feel like it. 3) I’ll be posting the band to you if you live in the UK. If you don’t live in the UK then there’s no need to enter. 4) You can enter on behalf of someone else if you like (eg If you are in Australia but you want your prize posted to someone in the UK, that’s fine). 5)

Now, if you’re interested in how this all came about, read on….

Nightfall ONE (Isaac Asimov)

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:41:28 +0000

Spam again – at least this one can read, if not write

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:04:30 +0000

How much do books weigh?

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:06:58 +0000

Almost two years! – Say hello everyone

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:01:04 +0000

Sharpe's Enemy (Bernard Cornwell) & Sharpe's Sword (Bernard Cornwell)

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:32:02 +0000

Harlequin (Bernard Cornwell) & Vagabond (Bernard Cornwell)

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:05:56 +0000

creating a new column in a MySQL select query

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:42:29 +0000

Sharpe's Havoc (Bernard Cornwell), Sharpe's Tiger (Bernard Cornwell) & Sharpe's Eagle (Bernard Cornwell)

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:06:40 +0000

Warrier Class (Dale Brown)

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:45:36 +0000

Holiday time, Foray en France

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:44:54 +0000

The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:13:47 +0000

Gallows Thief (Bernard Cornwell)

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:51:50 +0000

Sharpe's Triumph (Bernard Cornwell)

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:41:40 +0000

Piranha (Dale Brown)

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:26:40 +0000

Course Complete!

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:30:59 +0000

Who created $foo $bar?

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:42:08 +0000

You did do that backup…. didn't you?

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:02:59 +0000

PDF Creation, a cheap way for network users

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0000

The Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell)

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:54:28 +0000

First Lessons

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:27:37 +0000

My return to education begins…. in a distant sort of way

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:51:10 +0000

Sharpe's Trafalgar (Bernard Cornwell)

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:28:51 +0000

Imperial Earth (Arthur C Clarke)

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:12:24 +0000

Quote of the day: "The failure rate of hard drives is 100%…"

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:53:44 +0000

The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell) and The Pale Horseman (Bernard Cornwell)

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:59:20 +0000

Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:20:12 +0000

Happy Birthday to me! (30 today)

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:19:18 +0000

Woohoo! a new uptime record for my Win XP laptop

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:31:15 +0000

I just noticed my laptop was turned on 5 days and 4 hours ago (yes, it’s Friday today, and yes, I do work Sundays). Now, if only I could work for that long without a rest….

The Sigma Protocol (Robert Ludlum)

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:21:21 +0000

New village website

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:13:43 +0000

Some people try and spam anything

Sun, 28 May 2006 22:34:27 +0000

The Last Templar (Raymond Khoury)

Fri, 26 May 2006 12:44:35 +0000

Interesting Statistics for the new .eu domain

Sun, 21 May 2006 15:22:08 +0000

Spam Wars – on the trail of a serious spammer

Fri, 19 May 2006 14:24:46 +0000

I think I’m going to have to start a new category for these spam wars posts – there are getting to be so many!

Today I would like to report to you all a small success. Remember that domain mail-2204vf49.co.uk that had it’s address details hidden as it was registered to a non-trading individual who had opted out of displaying details in the registry? I spoke to nominet about that and they said if I could send them evidence that the domain was actually registered for a trading reason then they could ‘correct’ the opt out declaration and show the details (only non-trading individuals can opt out of the registry). I sent them a fax explaining the history of spam from this domain and extracts from my server log files and they agreed that the domain is really being used commercially. So here it
is, the owner of the spam sending domain is: [begin fanfare]

Domain name:
mail-2204vf49.co.uk

Registrant:
Tony Slater

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant’s address:
du-pont house
Cranbrook
GH56 9JH
GB

WAIT!!! STOP THE FANFARE!!! … there’s something fishy about that address. Like no street name… and I don’t live far from Cranbrook and I happen to know that Cranbrook is in the TN postcodes, not GH. The Royal Mail website doesn’t even recognise the GH postcode.

What next? Well, I’ve sent Nominet an email asking what to do when an address is false in the registry. I think I’ll give company “T” another phone call as well. The man there admited sending us the spam though this domain, so perhaps he’ll tell me who owns it (perhaps I’m giving the benefit of doubt to often, but hey, perhaps they could have accidentally registered the name with completely incorrect details……)

Spam Wars – A busy day!

Thu, 18 May 2006 17:45:15 +0000

Spam Wars – a little progress.

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:28:17 +0000

Batteries will *require* recycling – so what happens to ipods?

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:04:38 +0000

Spam wars continue…

Mon, 15 May 2006 12:21:44 +0000

A new category – Warbirds

Mon, 08 May 2006 01:12:45 +0000

Spam (warning – I'll be ranting again!)

Thu, 04 May 2006 11:16:53 +0000

The Naked Sun (Issac Asimov)

Wed, 03 May 2006 17:45:29 +0000

The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C.Clarke)

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:15:21 +0000

Blast from the past!

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:21:40 +0000

A Dawn Like Thunder (Douglas Reeman)

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:36:39 +0000

Issac Assimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:48:20 +0000

Boot from DVD (bios setting)

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:03:46 +0000

A new category!

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:19:42 +0000

International post

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:16:05 +0000

My New Phone

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:56:08 +0000

For many many years I’ve had a Nokia 8310. Like the one in the picture here. It worked fine, fitted the car kit and did all that was expected of it. I also had a Palm IIIc (like the picture here) which meant that I could take my diary with me. It would automatically update the office diary so everyone would know where I was, and everyone could add/update appointments as needed. It was a great setup, but unfortunately there was a fatal flaw in this arrangement. I almost always didn’t have the Palm with me when I wanted it. Not because it was too big, the size was fine. It was just that whereas I could remember to take the phone with me, I didn’t use the Palm enough to make sure I would always have that with me.

There’s another problem I’ve had too. Everywhere I go on business I need to take my laptop with me. It means should something happen on one of the servers I can log in and fix it remotely. It doesn’t happen often, but it sure makes me feel better knowing that if it does I can probably do something about it. It’s no fun carrying a laptop around all day just in case and I’d been thinking it would be great if I got a PDA that could browse the internet, be my diary and be my phone all in one go. Well, these type of devices have slowly become more common but it’s only now that I’ve finally decided it’s worth spending some money in an effort to make life a little easier.

So here it is, my new phone is an O2 XDA Exec. (Actually, the picture is the silver coloured HTC Universal, the 02 model is black and branded for 02 but the only decent image I could find was from the original equipment manufacturer) This is probably going to be another very long and boring post for most of you, so if you’re really interested follow the link to see all I’ve got to say on the big change over.

I won an iPod!

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:55:55 +0000

New experiment – googleads now on the site

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:30:45 +0000

The CD/DVD-Drive and the Paperclip (a.k.a. how to get your DVD out of your computer when the power is off)

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:02:12 +0000

Phases of Life

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:33:12 +0000

The Big Server Move

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:26:27 +0000

The holiday photos

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:15:58 +0000

Majestic12 – a distributed search engine

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:42:59 +0000

The evening of Christmas day

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:28:11 +0000

Telesales

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:44:47 +0000

Sharon came home! (and now she's gone again)

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:03:48 +0000

One whole year!

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:52:14 +0000

Things people don't understand – Thermostats

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:17:56 +0000

Subdomain Redirects

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:18:34 +0000

Changes to the Site Stylesheet

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:10:10 +0000

Made a few changes to the site stylesheet, made a screenshot of before and after too (I normally forget).

Memories, Music and co-incidence

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:08:46 +0000

Secret Lives

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:36:48 +0000

A new category – Root Theory/Root Memory/Roots Observations

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:14:42 +0000

Useful Windows Shortcut Key (show desktop)

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:08:07 +0000

There’s a useful windows shortcut key that I’d almost forgotten existed. I was speaking to a friend who uses a Mac and he proudly showed how by pressing one key (or combination) he could hide all of the open programs and display the OS X desktop. There’s an equivalent key in Windows XP too, it’s a combination of the “Windows Key” + D. Couldn’t remember it at the time as it’s been so long since I’ve used it.

There are hundreds of shortcut keys, I bet someone out there has an email service sending ‘shortcut key of the day’ too. If I find it, I think I’ll have to subscribe.

OK, pop quiz: Name the shortcut Keys for the following commands (answers in the Extended Entry):
Show Windows Desktop : (c’mon, I’ve just told you that one).
Copy :
Paste :
Switch to another application :

When I realised being sick wasn't so bad after all

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:13:51 +0000

promotional spam that made me laugh

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:01:10 +0000

Nan

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:00:25 +0000

JCB Song

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:24:32 +0000

Ha! – there must be a third….

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:35:33 +0000

The award for most annoying website of the week goes to…

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:24:45 +0000

Running Devil

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:56:08 +0000

images in the text

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:51:02 +0000

Mum and Dad fly to Oz

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:34:25 +0000

The Boughton 10k went well

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:15 +0000

Have you ever noticed…

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:15:32 +0000

First Aid

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:01:33 +0000

Busy me = Quiet Blog

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:48:07 +0000

To Ad, or not to Ad, that is the question

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:45:19 +0000

Nice little badge for my blog

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:39:20 +0000

another busy month

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:16:27 +0000

Back to basics

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:38:11 +0000

Movable Type Beta

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:54:30 +0000

How to resize a photo (jpg) to send in an email – (the quick way for Win XP)

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:29:42 +0000

Linux on a USB Memory Stick

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:25:36 +0000

I’ve finally got it working! Linux running of a USB Key.

It wasn’t so hard to set up once I’d found Puppy Linux.

As this is going to get more technical, you’ll have to follow the link to the extended entry about this (otherwise I’ll bore most of you reading this).

Sharon & Todd have a daughter

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:14:15 +0000

I did it!

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:05:48 +0000

A month with no posts

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:48 +0000

Running Rooties

Mon, 23 May 2005 22:19:38 +0000

If it's quiet here – I'm busy!

Wed, 18 May 2005 20:54:37 +0000

When business systems go bad…

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:24:10 +0000

Strange download behaviour?

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:22:27 +0000

Moving a whole network (bit by bit)

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:24:16 +0000

Computeried Diary for the whole office

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:11:29 +0000

ATC – Venture Adventure!

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:13:44 +0000

Annoying DVD's

Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:44:18 +0000

Shell Profits

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:51:55 +0000

Old Friends pop up

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:14:31 +0000

Run that by me one more time…

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:57:34 +0000

The Google Experiment Results

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:05:36 +0000

New Category – WebDev & Code

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:13:20 +0000

I’ve always enjoyed making computers do what I want them to – especially where it saves me doing the same work more than once. That’s why I first learnt to program a computer.

Happy New Year

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:52 +0000

Lots of friends

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:30:09 +0000

Learnings

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:05:57 +0000

Site Bugs to fix

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:16:36 +0000

Last posting date was today?

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:01:14 +0000

Snowboarding Nicola

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:15:17 +0000

Running Rooties – Dave's in the London Marathon

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:24:48 +0000

Coldfusion is better

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:53:25 +0000

They spoil their site by sending spam

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:12:02 +0000

Memories & Mums

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:39:59 +0000

New Category – Posts Waiting to happen

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:32:20 +0000

My mark on the web server scene

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:40:17 +0000

The Australian company that wishes it was American?

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:41:46 +0000

Now the search engines know I'm here

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:56:27 +0000

Water Bills rise in price – I still think its cheap

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:04:02 +0000

Today, OFWAT (the government body that ensures the water companies in the UK are acting responsibly) announced that water bills will be rising across the UK. The news media all started saying how bad it was and that the water companies made 1.4 billion (or some such figure) and therefore didn’t need to raise the prices anyway. As is typical with the media when they report this type of story, they fail to mention half the relevant facts. So, lets go find them on the internet and come to our own conclusion (or at least, you’ll get to read my opinion).

Coldfusion MX is no fun today :(

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:11:45 +0000

As some of you know, my webserver runs coldfusion which keeps the business site ticking over nicely. Well, normally it does, but just recently it seems to be playing up and the only way I discover this is when the web pages no longer work.

Image Discovery

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:23:25 +0000

Rotating Banners and "SU -"

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:21:37 +0000

Dangerous Words

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:05:22 +0000

About this site

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:03:08 +0000

And so it begins…

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:38:04 +0000

After a long time of thinking about doing it, I’ve finally done it. This is my blog, this is the first entry, and you should never follow a comma with the word and. It also looks strange to finish a sentence with the word and too.